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May 2006, Vol 96, No. 5 | American Journal of Public Health 802-804
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.066514

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

The Associations Between Victimization, Feeling Unsafe, and Asthma Episodes Among US High-School Students

Monica H. Swahn, PhD, MPH and Robert M. Bossarte, PhD

At the time of the study, the authors were with the Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Monica H. Swahn, PhD, MPH, Office on Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Hwy, Mail Stop K-50, Atlanta, GA 30341-3724 (email: mswahn{at}cdc.gov).

We examined the associations between victimization, missed school because of feeling unsafe, and asthma episodes among US high-school students using the 2003 Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Cross-sectional analyses on adolescents with asthma (n=1943) showed that any victimization and missed school because of feeling unsafe significantly increased the odds of having an asthma episode in the past year (adjusted odds ratio [OR]=1.45; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.07, 1.95 and adjusted OR = 2.93; 95% CI = 1.90, 4.53, respectively). Victimization and feeling unsafe are important but poorly understood risk factors for asthma.






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